Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-03

when the Chinese were viru1ently persecuted all over the United States. Chinese mer- chants in China donated forty thousand dol lars at that time to the relief of plague stricken Memphis, but the Christians quietly swallowed the sweet morseI without even
 thank you" But they did advertise it,
 heavily and strongly, all over the world when
 they paid one hundred and thirty-seye thou sand dollars to the Chinese government as
 petty compensation for the massacre of twen-
 ty-three Chinanen by civilized American
 Christians, and for robbing these and other
 poor heathen of their earthly possessions Of course we decline to admit all the ad-
 vantsges of your boasted civilization; or that
 tbe white race is the only civilized one. Its civilization is borrowed, adapted and shaped from our older form.
 China has national history of at least four thousand years, and had 8 printed his tory three thousand five hundred years be-
 fore European discovered the art of type- printing. in the course of our national ex-
 lstence our race has passed. like others, through mythology, superstition, witchcraft, established religion, to philosophical religion We have been 'blest" with at least half a dozen religions more than any other nation None of them were rational enough to be-
 come the abiding faith of an intelligent peo- pie; but when we began to reason we suc- ceeded in making society better and it's gov ernment more protective, and our great req soner, Confucius, reduced our various so- ciaI and religious ideas into, book form and so perpetuated them.
 Call us heather if you will, the Chinese are still superior in social administration and social order. Among four hundred million of Chinese there are fewer murders and robberies iii year than there are in New York State. True, China supports luxu- rlous monarch-whose every whim must be gratlhed; yet withal it's people are the most q hQ uor1I hor,i ,oAIo to pay but from titled soil, rice and salt; and yet she has not single dollar of na- tional debt.
 Such implicit confidence have we Chi nese in our heather politicians that we leave the matter of jurisprudence entirely ! in their hands; and they are able to devise the best possible laws for the preservation of life, property and happiness, without l Christian demagogism, or by the cruel per secution of one class to promote the selfish interests of another; and we are so far heathenish as to no longer persecute men simply on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, but treat them all &C., l cording to their individual worth.
 Though we may differ from the Christian l in appearance, manners and general ideas of | civilization, we do not organize into coward l ly mobs under the guise of social or political l reform, to plunder and murder with impuni4 1 to; and we are so far advanced in our heath enism as to no longer tolerate popular feeling or religious prejudice to defeat justice or cause injustice.
 We are simple enough, too, not to allow l the neglect or abuse of age by youth, howev- CT mild the form. ''The silent tears of age | will call down the fire of heaven upon those who make them flow"
 Christians are continually fussing about re- l ligion; they build great churches and make ! long prayers; and yet there is more wicked ness in the neighborhood of single church ! Il nF and i,,N | than among the million heathen, churchless l and unsermonized.
 Christian talk is long and loud about how | to be good and to act charitab1y. It is all | charity and no fraternity-' there, dog, take
 your crust and be thankful!" And is it, l therefore, any wonder there is more heart breaking and suicides in the single State of New York in year than in all China9 The difference between the heather and the Christian is that the heathen does good l for the sake of doing good. With the Chris | tian, what little good he does he doe it for inn to the Lord and wants compound interest. In fact, the Christian is the worthy heir of his religious ancestors.
 The heather does much and says little about it; the Christian does little good, but when he does he wants it in the papers and on his tombstone.
 1 Love men for the good they do you is a practical Christian idea, not for the good you l should do them matter of human duty. So Christians love the heathen; yes, the heathen's possessions; and i n proportion to these the Christians love grows in intensity. When the Englishmen wanted the China | mems gold and trade they said they wanted ''to open China for their missionaries" And opium was the chief, in fact only, missionary l they looked after when they forced the ports open. And this infamous Christian intro- duction among Chinamen has done more in- ! jury, social and moral, in China than all the humanitarian agencies of Christianity could I remedy in 200 years. And on you Chris tians, and on your greed of gold we lay the burden of the crime resulting; of tens of millions of honest, useful men and women sent thereby to premature death after l short, miserable life, besides the physical | and moral prostration it entails, even where | it does not prematurely kill! And this great national curse was thrust on us at the points of Christian bayonets. And you wonder | why we are heathen?
 The only positive point Christians have l impressed on heathenism is that they would | sacrifice religion, honor, principle, as they do | ously tell the poor heathen: 'You must save your soul by believing we do!''
 Members of my faith do not worship gold, :, 1 although they know it is a very handy thing l to have in the house; but honor and prinei- | pie are dearer than pelf to the average
 heather. But I dare say when the heather 1 have become sufficiently demoralized by con- tact with Christian civilization and it's Van | ity Fair of pretence, pride and dress they will probably be worse even than the Chris
 tian in beating their way through this wide,
 wicked world. Pupils are often too apt.